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Ferule
- noun - a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
Fervid
- adjective - characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"
- extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope
Fervor
- noun - feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"
Firing
- verb - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
- provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
- start firing a weapon
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Firkin
- noun - a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons
- a small wooden keg
Firlot
- - A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Firman
- - In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
Firmed
- verb - become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"
- make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"
Firmer
- unknown - More emphatic, more resolute, stronger
- More firm
- not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.